Steve Campbell enters his third season on the UMBC coaching
staff, after joining head coach Leslie Wray and the
Retrievers in January of 2012.

Campbell was a member of the 2013 America East Coaching Staff of
the Year that helped to guide the Retrievers to an unforgettable
season. The Retrievers, who posted the third-biggest turnaround
among Division I women’s soccer programs, broke their way
into the record books with a program-best 13 wins and posted the
biggest-turnaround in America East history en route to their
first-ever regular-season title. UMBC continued its success into
the postseason, earning its first-ever conference tournament crown
and a berth to the program’s first NCAA Tournament.

Under the UMBC women’s soccer staff’s tutelage, the
Retrievers garnered five America East All-Conference selections, in
addition to the program’s first major award winner since
joining the league in Co-Midfielder of the Year Jessy Brown. The
red-shirt junior was also recognized on a national-level, earning
Eastern College Athletic Association (ECAC) All-Star Second Team
honors and NSCAA All-Region Third Team recognition.

The Retrievers’ success was not limited to the field in
2013, as Brown and sophomore back Nikki Boretti became the third
and fourth members of the program to earn spots on the
league’s All-Academic Team. Brown also added a selection to
the NSCAA University Division Women’s Scholar All-East Region
Second Team. The squad also participated in Headers for Hope, which
raised between 15 and 18 thousand dollars for the Ulman Cancer Fund
for Young Adults, as well as selling shirts for the team’s
annual Fight in Pink game, with proceeds going to the Susan G.
Komen fund.

Campbell has years of experience at both the collegiate and
youth level. The native of Derbyshire, England served as a
volunteer men’s soccer assistant coach at his alma mater, the
University of Maryland from 1996-98. In his last two seasons, the
Terrapins won the ACC Tournament Championship and then made it to
the 1998 NCAA Final Four.

He returned to Maryland in 2001 and spent four seasons as
assistant coach for the women’s program. The team reached the
NCAA Tournament in 2001, 2002 and 2003, reaching the second round
in his second campaign.

Moreover, since his graduation from Maryland in 1996, Campbell
has coached several youth girls programs in the state of Maryland.
From 1996-98 and in 2000, he was the coach of the Maryland Olympic
Development Program (ODP) U-13 team. In 1999, he coached the
Maryland ODP U-19 team and in 2001, he was hired as an ODP
Region 1 staff coach. He also served as the head coach of the
Bethesda Dragons club team from 1998-2003. With the Dragons,
Campbell helped his team to numerous honors including winning 2
USYSA Region I championships, 3 Maryland State championships and a
No. 1 team national ranking and had five players selected for
US Soccer Youth National Team programs.

From 2006-13, Campbell served as the Director of Coaching and
ECNL Director for Maryland United FC, formerly Freestate Soccer
Alliance. He was instrumental in helping lead the club to new
heights and gaining national recognition in the youth soccer
landscape. Players were represented in youth Regional and National
Team programs and the boys’ and girls’ club teams have
captured a total of seven State Cup championships in the last five
years. The girls program is an inaugural member of the prestigious
ECNL Elite Clubs National League. He currently coaches the Maryland
United North U12 Girls.

Campbell also coached boys’ youth soccer from 2003-2008,
leading Bethesda-Freestate United to three USYSA Region 1
titles.

Since 2000, he has also served as the Director of Total Soccer
Training LLC, specializing in individual, group and team training
clinics and camps, and is part of the US Club Soccer id2 program
coaching staff.

Campbell played 49 games as a midfielder with the Terps from
1992-96. He lettered on three teams that reached the NCAA Round of
16 in 1994,1995 and 1996.

Campbell holds a USSF National “A” coaching license.
He played for Derby County F.C. youth team and was a member of the
England U-18 Schoolboy National Pool before arriving in the U.S. on
a full athletic scholarship to the University of Maryland.

In 1998, he married Nicole Lefcourt, a 1995 Maryland graduate
and gymnastic standout for the Terrapins. The couple has a
daughter, Danielle (11), and song, Ryan (nine). They currently
reside in Ellicott City, Md.